Britain's Commonwealth Games wrestling champion Myroslav Dykun has been banned
for two years after failing a drugs test.

Dykun, who is Britain's top Greco-Roman wrestler and won gold for England in the 66kg category in Delhi in 2010, tested positive for a stimulant from the amphetamine group of drugs earlier this year.

The 29-year-old had hoped to represent Team GB at the London Olympics but he was suspended before the places were discussed so was not considered for the Games.

The Ukranian-born wrestler, who arrived in Britain in 2003, will now be unable to compete until April 2014.

UK Anti-Doping has confirmed the two-year suspension after a 'B' sample came back positive for a positive methamphetamine test on March 24 at the British Senior Championships.

Chief executive of UK Anti-Doping, Andy Parkinson, said: “Our pre-Games prevention programme was put in place to ensure that only clean athletes represent Great Britain and this case proves that the system is working.

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"When the eyes of the world fall on London later this month, we want the public to have confidence in clean sport and understand that doping of any kind will not be tolerated.”

Olga Butkevych, who was also born in Ukraine, will be Britain’s sole wrestling representative at the London Olympics after the British Olympic Association rejected pleas from British Wrestling to relax its selection guidelines to allow three athletes to compete at the Games.

The wrestling governing body had hoped the BOA whould show leniency towards Britain's wrestlers after they failed to fulfil the necessary criteria to ensure selection for the Olympics, but the panel refused to amend its guidelines.

Britain's last Olympic medal in the sport was in 1984 when Noel Loban won bronze in Los Angeles.